If it is boiling away, add water to fill up.
Trimmings of mutton, lamb, beef, chicken, or turkey, may be added to the veal.
In case of hurry, it may be done quickly and by boiling rather fast, but it is not as good, and there is less of it with the same quantity of meat.
For a grand dinner, the gravy may be made one or two and even three days in advance; then simmer it for five or six hours.
MELONS.
Musk-melons are always served as a hors-d'oeuvre, but must be eaten immediately after soup, or the first thing of all if no soup is served.
It is a great mistake to serve melons as a dessert.
Water-melons, though eaten abundantly, are considered very unwholesome by the great majority of doctors, chemists, and physiologists.
Musk-melons are served in slices with sugar, or with salt and pepper, according to taste.